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FELLINI’S CASANOVA
1976
Director
Federico Fellini
Starring
Donald Sutherland
Tina Aumont
Cicely Browne
Carmen Scarpitta
Runtime
155 minutes
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Federico Fellini’s infamous take on the tale of Giacomo Casanova is a lavish, hallucinatory reimagining of the legendary Venetian seducer’s life — less historical portrait than fever-dream-induced baroque fantasia.
Donald Sutherland stars as the notorious 18th-century libertine, whose cold, obsessive, mechanical devotion to fornicating hides a terrible void within. The film follows Casanova as he escapes imprisonment in Venice and embarks on a debauched tour of the courts of Europe. Drawing only loosely from Casanova’s own memoirs, Fellini instead filters the character through his recurring cinematic obsessions — artifice, desire and the absurd theater of sex — as Casanova’s encounters span the bizarre and fantastical, from noblewomen to acrobats, a giantess, a dwarf and even a life-size automaton.
FELLINI’S CASANOVA is a visual and sonic spectacle, shot on the extravagantly vast and flamboyantly decorated soundstages at Cinecittà Studios, and stands as one of the great director’s most ambitious and divisive works. And if you need an extra bit of salesmanship before buying a ticket, just think of this as Fellini’s BARRY LYNDON. It’s that grand and essential.
Donald Sutherland stars as the notorious 18th-century libertine, whose cold, obsessive, mechanical devotion to fornicating hides a terrible void within. The film follows Casanova as he escapes imprisonment in Venice and embarks on a debauched tour of the courts of Europe. Drawing only loosely from Casanova’s own memoirs, Fellini instead filters the character through his recurring cinematic obsessions — artifice, desire and the absurd theater of sex — as Casanova’s encounters span the bizarre and fantastical, from noblewomen to acrobats, a giantess, a dwarf and even a life-size automaton.
FELLINI’S CASANOVA is a visual and sonic spectacle, shot on the extravagantly vast and flamboyantly decorated soundstages at Cinecittà Studios, and stands as one of the great director’s most ambitious and divisive works. And if you need an extra bit of salesmanship before buying a ticket, just think of this as Fellini’s BARRY LYNDON. It’s that grand and essential.